Abroadoffice.net Website Review

AbroadOffice is a complete, patent-pending solution that radically reduces the cost and effort required to run even the largest study AbroadOffice provides an advanced customizable study abroad website integrated with a student and program database. The features and functionality of AbroadOffice far exceed those of most in-house solutions and are comparable with or better than commercial systems AbroadOffice gives every school, regardless of size and enrollments, the ability to effectively manage a growing number of study abroad students and programs, through a user-friendly website and integrated online system. and third-party provider program listings. AbroadOffice is hosted in our corporate-grade IT facility and requires no software, hardware or Part of our mission is to promote study abroad capacity building, including: student access, institutional support structures, student, academic and geographic diversity and best practices and standards. We realized that many of the scholarships and capacity building efforts we offer might go un-used because hundreds of the HACU member colleges and universities we partnered with did not even have a study abroad office to support students interested in studying abroad.  Thus, we came up with the idea of creating a virtual office that fulfilled the basic functions of a study abroad office and could be customized to individual schools.  AbroadOffice is an outgrowth of that initial idea to create an online study abroad office for schools that neither had staff, facilities, expertise, nor administrative infrastructure to support study abroad. During our capacity-building work, we also discovered that many study abroad offices did not have the resources to effectively and efficiently track program options and student applications and support functions.  For most colleges, developing a custom in-house technology solution can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and commercial systems were often outside the price range of study abroad